JP2018077831A - System and method for automatic recognition and management of scheduling and adjustment of enterprise visitor, computer mounting method, program, computerized system, and mobile terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and system for substantially eliminating one or more of the above mentioned and other problems related to a conventional enterprise visitor management technology.SOLUTION: A computer mounting method is executed by a computerized system comprising: a central processing unit; a position specification signal receiver; and a memory, the method which including: (a) receiving at least one position specification signal by using the position specification signal receiver; (b) determining the location of a person on the basis of at least one received position specification signal; (c) storing information on a role of the person related to visit; (d) storing information on an agenda of visit; and (e) managing the visit by using the determined location of the person, the stored role information and the stored visit agenda information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The disclosed embodiments relate generally to geolocation and tracking systems and methods, and more particularly to systems and methods for automatic recognition and management of enterprise visitor scheduling and coordination.

  Planning, coordinating, communicating, escorting, and reporting external visitors in modern organizations is an incredibly manual, cumbersome and costly activity. Many organizations employ dedicated personnel to perform many of these boring functions. In other organizations, host employees are burdened with conducting meetings. In either situation, the organization spends human resources that are not directly applied to achieving the core function of the organization. New and improved systems and methods for automatic recognition and management of such business visitor scheduling and coordination are highly desirable.

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  An object of the present invention is to make it possible to grasp the positional relationship of a person who visits a scheduled event with respect to a facility.

  Embodiments described herein are directed to methods and systems that substantially eliminate one or more of the above and other problems associated with traditional enterprise visitor management techniques.

  In accordance with one aspect of the inventive concepts described herein, a computer-implemented method is provided that is implemented in a computerized system incorporating a central processing unit, a location signal receiver, and a memory. The computer-implemented method includes receiving at least one location signal using a location signal receiver, determining a person's location based on the received at least one location signal, and visiting Memorizing information about the person's role associated with the person, memorizing information about the agenda of the visit, and using the determined location of the person, memorized role information and memorized visit agenda information With managing.

  In one or more embodiments, the visit agenda information includes information about each event associated with the visit.

  In one or more embodiments, the stored information regarding the agenda for the visit includes the location of the event, and managing the visit includes a location indicator that indicates a location of a person associated with the location of the event. Comprising generating.

  In one or more embodiments, if a location signal is not received, the location indicator indicates that a person's location cannot be determined.

  In one or more embodiments, the location indicator is selected from the group comprising: “inside the building”, “near the building”, “far from the building”.

  In one or more embodiments, the location indicator is selected from the group comprising: “inside the building”, “near the building”, “far from the building” and “inside the location of the event”.

  In one or more embodiments, the location indicator includes a colored graphic widget, and the color of the graphic widget is an indication of a person's location relative to the location of the visit.

  In one or more embodiments, the location indicator includes a measure of the distance between the person's location and the visiting location.

  In one or more embodiments, distance measurements are shown in distance units.

  In one or more embodiments, distance measurements are shown in units of time indicating when a person will have arrived at the location of the visit.

  In one or more embodiments, the visit agenda information includes the time of the event, and managing the visit comprises generating a graphical user interface that includes an indicator that indicates whether the person is late for the event.

  In one or more embodiments, the indicator includes a measure of a person's delay time for the visit.

  In one or more embodiments, the visit agenda information includes information about each person participating in each event associated with the visit.

  In one or more embodiments, the information about each person participating in the visit includes a person's mobile device identifier (ID).

  In one or more embodiments, the person role associated with the visit is selected from the group consisting of visitors, hosts and non-host participants, each visit comprising at least one visitor and at least one visitor. Associated with a host.

  In one or more embodiments, the method further includes notifying the host of visitor arrival at the location associated with the visit.

  In one or more embodiments, the method further includes notifying a request for attention from the visitor.

  In one or more embodiments, the method further includes notifying the host of a delay in the arrival of the visitor at the location associated with the visit.

  In one or more embodiments, the information regarding each event associated with the visit includes the time and location of each event associated with the visit, and the computer-implemented method further includes the location of the person associated with the location of the event. Automatically adjusting the time of each event associated with the visit based on the.

  In one or more embodiments, the method further includes providing an adjusted time for each event associated with the visit for each person associated with the event.

  In one or more embodiments, the location signal includes one or more BLE signals from one or more Bluetooth® low energy (BLE) beacons.

  In one or more embodiments, the person role associated with the visit is an administrator, and the computer-implemented method further includes the arrival of the visitor at the location associated with the visit or the visitor at the location associated with the visit. Informing the administrator of the delay in the arrival.

  In one or more embodiments, the system includes at least an event related to a visit, information about a visitor to the event, information about an organizer of the event, and information about a venue where the event is held. Storage means stored in association with each other, receiving means for receiving, from the mobile terminal of the visitor, identification information for identifying the visitor or the mobile terminal, and information regarding the position of the mobile terminal, and the identification information. Using the acquisition means for acquiring the event related to the user of the mobile terminal from the events stored in the storage means, and the location of the visitor based on the information on the location received by the reception means; , Positional relationship information indicating the positional relationship with the venue where the event acquired by the acquisition means is held Includes, transmitting means for transmitting to said organizer.

  In one or more embodiments, in the system, the mobile terminal further receives information on the strength of the signal from the signal generator, and the information on the position is information on the strength received by the mobile terminal. Used to estimate the position of the mobile terminal.

  In one or a plurality of embodiments, in the system, a plurality of visitors are associated with the event, and the transmission unit transmits the positional relationship information for each visitor to the organizer. .

  In one or a plurality of embodiments, the mobile terminal receives a reception unit that receives a signal from the signal generation device, user identification information that identifies the user or the user terminal, and a transmission source of the signal received by the reception unit Transmitting means for transmitting to the server device information for identifying, the strength of the signal received by the receiving means, the user identification information transmitted by the transmitting means, information for identifying the transmission source, Information relating to the event that the user is scheduled to participate in is generated as information related to the user identification information by the server device using the strength, an acquisition means for acquiring the generated information related to the event, and the acquisition means Display means for displaying information about the acquired event.

  In one or more embodiments, the mobile terminal includes deriving means for deriving the position of the user terminal from the strength of the signal received by the receiving means, and the transmitting means is a signal received by the receiving means. The position of the user terminal derived by the deriving unit is transmitted to the server device instead of the strength of the server.

  In accordance with another aspect of the inventive concept described herein, a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising a set of computer-executable instructions is provided, the set of computer-executable instructions comprising: a central processing unit; Receiving at least one location signal using the location signal receiver when received in connection with a computerized system incorporating a location signal receiver, a display, and a memory; Determining a person's location based on at least one location signal; storing information about a person's role associated with the visit; storing information about a visit agenda; Managing the visit using the location, the stored role information and the stored visit agenda information It is implemented in a computerized system.

  In accordance with yet another aspect of the presently described concept of the invention, there is provided a computerized system incorporating a central processing unit, a location signal receiver, and a memory, the memory receiving location signal. Receiving at least one location signal using the machine, determining a person's location based on the received at least one location signal, and storing information about a person's role associated with the visit And managing information using the determined location of the person, the stored role information, and the stored visit agenda information. Storing a set of computer readable instructions to be executed by the computer.

  Additional aspects related to the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows, and in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention. Aspects of the present invention can be realized and attained by means of the elements particularly pointed out in the following detailed description and the appended claims, and the combination of various elements and aspects.

  It is to be understood that both the foregoing and following description is exemplary and explanatory only and is not intended to limit the claimed invention or its application in any way.

An object of the present invention is to make it possible to grasp the positional relationship of a person who visits a scheduled event with respect to a facility.

  The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain and illustrate the principles of the techniques of the invention. Specifically, it is as follows.

1 illustrates an exemplary embodiment of a system for automatic recognition and management of enterprise visitor scheduling and coordination. 2 illustrates various exemplary graphical user interfaces generated by one embodiment of a system for automatic recognition and management of business visitor scheduling and coordination shown in FIG. 1. 2 illustrates various exemplary graphical user interfaces generated by one embodiment of a system for automatic recognition and management of business visitor scheduling and coordination shown in FIG. 1. 2 illustrates various exemplary graphical user interfaces generated by one embodiment of a system for automatic recognition and management of business visitor scheduling and coordination shown in FIG. 1. 2 illustrates various exemplary graphical user interfaces generated by one embodiment of a system for automatic recognition and management of business visitor scheduling and coordination shown in FIG. 1. 2 illustrates an exemplary operational sequence of a system for automatic recognition and management of business visitor scheduling and coordination shown in FIG. FIG. 6 illustrates another exemplary graphical user interface generated by one embodiment of the described system for automatic recognition and management of the business visitor scheduling and coordination shown in FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary embodiment of a computerized system that can be used as a mobile client device in connection with the system for automatic recognition and management of enterprise visitor scheduling and coordination shown in FIG. FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary embodiment of a computerized system that can be used to deploy various servers of the system for automatic recognition and management of business visitor scheduling and coordination shown in FIG.

  In the following detailed description, reference will be made to the accompanying drawing (s), in which equivalent functional elements are designated with like numerals. The accompanying drawings described above illustrate, by way of example and not limitation, specific embodiments and implementations consistent with the principles of the invention. These implementations are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention, and other implementations can be utilized and various without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention. It should be understood that structural changes and / or substitutions of various elements may be made. The following detailed description is, therefore, not to be construed in a limited sense. Furthermore, the various embodiments of the invention described can be implemented in the form of software running on a general purpose computer, in the form of dedicated hardware, or in a combination of software and hardware.

  One or more of the embodiments described herein are compatible with a broad set of tools, systems, and processes associated with automating processes around visitor management. One or more described embodiments track visitors (using their personal device as a proxy), agendas related to when and where visit related events take place, and notify visitors It provides new features that can be used in connection with a visitor management tool that can be enabled through a combination with a set of mobile interfaces for interacting with the visitor.

  FIG. 1 illustrates an exemplary embodiment of a system 100 for automatically recognizing and managing corporate visitor scheduling and visit coordination. The embodiment shown in FIG. 1 incorporates several functional components. In one embodiment, the system 100 incorporates one or more mobile client devices 101, a location service 102, a visit service 103, a visit agenda database 104 and context metadata and notification 105. The purpose, overall operation, and new function of these components are described in detail below.

  In one or more embodiments, the aforementioned visit agenda database 104 includes information to support the novel features of the embodiments described herein. This information includes, for example, the names of people involved in the visit, contact information, and device information (device identifier (ID) required to associate the user with the person's device). These people are referred to as visitors (who come to the visit), hosts (who are responsible for managing the visitor), and participants (the part of the organization that participates in the visit activity but is not the host), There can be among three different types (also referred to herein as roles).

  In one or more embodiments, the visit agenda database 104 also includes information about the one or more visit events, including day, time, and location (eg, the building or campus where the visit will take place). To capture. In addition, events within the visit can also be captured. Events within the aforementioned visits are also referred to herein as “gathering” and typically exemplify individual appointments or meetings scheduled during the visit. In one or more embodiments, the aforementioned visit agenda database 104 further stores associations between people and agenda items (eg, visit A is host B, visitors C and D, and gathering). E and F). In various embodiments, the visit agenda database 104 is relational including, but not limited to, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, SQL Anywhere, PostgreSQL, SQL Lite, Firebird, and / or MaxDB, which are well known to those skilled in the art. It can be implemented based on any new known or later developed type of database software such as a database management system. In an alternative embodiment, a cloud-based distributed database, such as the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), well known to those skilled in the art, can also be used to implement the visit agenda database 104.

  In one or more embodiments, the location service 102 is responsible for operations related to tracking the mobile client device 101. In one embodiment, the location service 102 scans the location information of the BLE beacon deployed at the location where location tracking is to be performed, the transmitter signal, and in some cases, uses that signal to determine the location of the mobile device. A client runtime library embedded in the deployed mobile application running on the mobile client device 101 that computes the estimate (derived from the location of the mobile device), and the location estimate and / or scan data 106 in FIG. , And keeps a history of these location estimates, and provides three major elements that provide APIs for other services to access this information. The location service 102 also maintains a taxonomy for describing locations. This includes buildings, floors, spaces, and points of interest. As will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, the described embodiments are not limited to any particular location determination technique; other such techniques such as GPS or WIFI determine the current location of the mobile client device 101. Can be used for.

  In one or more embodiments, each mobile client device 101 executes a client application that includes a location tracking runtime and provides an interface for the system to interact with visitors, hosts, and participants.

  In one or more embodiments, the visit service 103 can be deployed on a server where all logical components and events are triggered. Visit service 103 is a client application on all users' mobile client devices 101, location (for managing the relationship between the location as related to the agenda item and the location estimate determined by the location service). Communicate with the service 102 and various other third party Internet-based services that may need to be exploited for additional information or actions. The system 100 can further include one or more administrator client devices 106 for displaying current (eg, real-time) status or location of visitors and other users and providing historical audit information. . In various embodiments, the administrator client device 106 may be a mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet or a stationary device such as a desktop computer. In another embodiment, the visitor's status or location may be displayed on the display device of the visiting host user's mobile client device 101.

  In one or more embodiments, the system 100 for automatically executing and managing corporate visitor scheduling and visit coordination shown in FIG. 1 includes real-time visit status / aggregation status and visitor etc. A graphical user interface providing status information is generated on the display device. In various embodiments, the aforementioned display device can be connected to the client device 106 of the administrator of the system 100. In one embodiment, the system 100 described above provides a real-time overview, such as a dashboard, of all visitors, hosts, and participants and their relationship to current or next visits and / or meetings. To do. In particular, in one exemplary embodiment, the generated graphical user interface provides an at-a-glance real-time context for each person's location relative to the corresponding event location.

  An exemplary embodiment of the aforementioned graphical user interface 200 is shown in FIG. In one or more embodiments, each visit is associated with a building level location descriptor that represents the location of the meeting or other suitable activity associated with the visit. In one or more exemplary embodiments, the aforementioned location descriptor for each visit is stored in an appropriate location descriptor record in the visit agenda database 104. For example, for a visit to the head office, the visit is anchored to the “main building”, which is the content stored in the location descriptor record. In one or more embodiments, the graphical user interface provides the user with each person's location associated with the visit in relation to the visit activity location as stored in the building level visit location identifier record. Show.

  As shown in FIG. 2a, in one or more embodiments, based on the person's current position as determined by the location service 102, the person can determine the person's current position in relation to the aforementioned visited location descriptor. Represented by the graphical user interface described above using one of the following four states to describe. In the first exemplary situation, the person is located inside the building of the visiting activity. This state is indicated by a green circular light 201 around a human picture in this embodiment. In the second exemplary situation, the person is located near (close to) the building of the visiting activity. Proximity is defined as either a predetermined distance (eg, a few feet or meters) of a person from the activity building or a predetermined time (eg, a few minutes) of travel time from the person's current location to the activity building. be able to. This proximity state is indicated by the orange circular light 202 in FIG.

  In a third exemplary situation, the person is located far from the visiting activity building. In this situation, the person's location may exceed the limits set by the internal and nearby conditions (first and second states) described above. This state is indicated by red circular light 203 in FIG. Finally, in the fourth exemplary state, there is no information about the person's current location. Therefore, the system cannot determine and / or estimate this person's location relative to the visiting activity location.

  In one exemplary situation, Art, George and Cosmo are visitors and they are on their way to the visiting activity building. If they are far from the visiting activity building, this state is indicated by red circular light 211 around the Art, George and Cosmo pictures in the user interface screen 210 shown in FIG. 2b.

  Then, when Art and George arrive near the visiting activity building, the color of the circular light 221 around each Art and George picture turns orange as seen in the user interface screen 220 shown in FIG. 2c. Change. If there is no information about the current position of Cosmo, the picture of Cosmo (in the circular light 222) in the user interface screen 220 is shaded. A shaded picture indicates that the location of the person whose picture is so shaded cannot be determined. In this situation, the color of the circular light 222 around the shaded picture can be changed to a specific color indicating that there is no information at the person's location. For example, the color of the aforementioned circular light 222 may be changed to gray. In other words, the gray colored light 222 and shading in FIG. 2c indicate that the system is unable to determine the person's current location.

  In yet another embodiment shown in FIG. 2d, there is still no information about the current location of Cosmo, but the last determined location of Cosmo is far from the visiting activity building and is only seen in circular light 203 in FIG. 2a. As can be seen, the circular color around the Cosmo picture was red. In this embodiment, if there is no information about the current position of Cosmo, the picture of Cosmo (in the circular light 232) is shaded, but the color of the circular light 232 can remain red. In other words, the shaded picture means that the system cannot determine the current position of the person showing the shaded picture, and the circular color is that of the person previously detected It means the positional relationship between the position of a person and the activity building that is visited. The color of the circular light 231 around the Art and George pictures on the user interface screen 230 in FIG. 2d changes to green, indicating that they have arrived at the visiting activity building.

  In one or more embodiments, a detailed description of the location context can be further provided in the user detail view. This detailed view is a place where an estimate of the distance and / or time from a person's local location to the activity location can be seen for each user. In addition, the detailed view can show additional information such as a person's current location, speed, accessibility, and the like.

  In one or more embodiments, for the gathering situation, five additional exemplary states are provided as follows, where the person is located inside the space that is the gathering location. This state is indicated by a blue circular light around a person's picture (not shown in FIGS. 2a-2d). This exemplary state indicates that there is a person inside the space allocated for the currently scheduled meeting place (eg, person X is inside meeting room Y). As will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, the aforementioned colors associated with the state being described are exemplary only, and any other suitable color combination may be used to indicate a person's current state. Further, the present invention is not limited to the five states described, but many others in connection with the system 100 for automatic recognition and management of corporate visitor scheduling and coordination shown in FIG. Any suitable state can be used.

  In one or more embodiments, the described system 100 provides roles, locations and agenda actions and notifications for visits and people associated with visit schedules. In particular, in one embodiment, the system 100 can provide location-based notifications to people based on a combination of role, location, and agenda details. In particular, in one embodiment, the system 100 is configured to provide the following recognition notifications.

  In one or more embodiments, the system 100 can generate an appropriate notification to alert the host when a visitor is near and / or arrives at the visited location. An exemplary operational sequence 300 of such an embodiment is shown in FIG. First, in step 301, the mobile client application running on the user's mobile client device 101 periodically scans the environment for BLE beacons or other electromagnetic signal sources and registers the beacon ID along with the corresponding signal strength. . In step 302, the mobile client application described above, with element ID 106 in FIG. 1, along with its mobile client or user ID or the corresponding mobile client device 101 ID it is executing, A location estimation event is generated by transmitting the received BLE beacon ID and the strength of the received signal corresponding to each additionally received BLE beacon ID. This event generation causes the location service 102 to trigger the location determination of the mobile client device 101 and the generation of the location event 107 in a manner well known in the art. Thereby, the determined location information is transmitted to the visiting service 103 by the location service 102 as in step 303. In step 304, in response to receipt of the aforementioned location event, the visit service 103 (with the mobile client device ID sent in step 302) associates the mobile client device 101 associated with that event with the visit agenda database. 104, matching the visitor role in the current visit record and using that visit record as in element 108 in FIG. 1, information about the associated host entity (the visitor host of the event) (eg, ID ) Thereafter, the visit service 103 was determined when the visitor was near and / or arrived at the visit location determined by the location service 102 as in step 305 and elements 109 and 110 in FIG. Notify the visitor host. Such notifications include, but are not limited to, e-mail, text (SMS), phone call, pop-up message on the screen of the corresponding mobile client device 101, the sound played by such mobile client device 101 or such It should be noted that various currently known or later-developed means can be sent to the visitor host, including vibrations of a mobile client device 101 that is different.

  In one or more embodiments, the system 100 can generate an appropriate notification to alert a visitor attention request to a host of events. Such alerts are triggered by direct interactions and instructions in the client mobile application when a visitor requests attention to a specific host or all hosts. In such embodiments, the visitor's location, as determined using the location service 102 in the manner described above, may be sent to the host or all hosts to whom alerts related to the current visit agenda event are notified. May be sent.

  In one or more embodiments, the system 100 can generate an appropriate notification indicating that any participant is late for the current agenda event. If a person with a visitor role is late for an event to attend, in one embodiment, this is also an event that is affected by the delay using records stored in the visit agenda database 104. Trigger a notification of late arrivals to the host. System 100 can also be configured to provide a person with a reminder that this person is scheduled to be at a different location at a given time. In one embodiment, the system 100 may further be configured to provide instructions and / or maps that assist a person in reaching the agenda location.

  In one or more embodiments, the system 100 for automatic recognition and management of enterprise visitor scheduling and coordination is configured to provide agenda timeline tracking and management. In this embodiment, the user's location relative to a defined agenda event location can be tracked to potentially determine if the agenda timeline is no longer accurate. This situation can be detected in several ways. First, people X, Y, and Z are defined to participate in Agenda Event B at Location 2, but are still tracked to be in Location 1 associated with Agenda Event A The system 100 can determine that the agenda timeline is no longer accurate. Second, if people X, Y, and Z are defined to participate in agenda event B at location 1, but people N and M are still in location 1 that is also associated with event A, By delaying the availability of the location 1, it can be determined that the progress of the subsequent event is affected. Third, the system 100 may determine that if a certain percentage of people associated with event A are not in the specified location, it will similarly affect the progress of the event. it can.

  In one or more embodiments, the system 100 for automatic recognition and management of corporate visitor scheduling and coordination is further configured to allow for indication of delay by an agenda event host. When such a delay is detected by the system 100, an estimated delay time can be calculated and transmitted to all affected persons. In the simplest case, the delay time can be the time difference between the actual start of the event and the schedule start. In an alternative embodiment, a more elaborate model for estimating the delay may be used. For example, a delay estimation model may provide historical information about delays associated with a particular people, a particular number of people, keywords used to describe an agenda item, the location of an agenda event, or any combination of these items. Can be used. In addition, as shown in FIG. 4, delay information (or lack of delay) 401, 402, and 403 is displayed in the agenda graphical user interface 400 to notify a person associated with a downstream agenda event about potential delays. Can be reported. The delay information can also be relayed to the visiting host and presented to the visiting host with options for cascading delays through the agenda and notifying affected people.

  Similarly, embodiments of the system 100 for automatic recognition and management of corporate visitor scheduling and coordination use the same heuristics described above when an agenda event starts early and / or ends early. Can be determined. Further, the system 100 can also be configured to provide a mechanism for canceling an agenda event and automatically reconfiguring the remaining agenda if desired.

  In one or more embodiments, the system 100 for automatic recognition and management of enterprise visitor scheduling and coordination is configured to provide security audits and notifications. In particular, this embodiment can manage and provide detailed logs and visual representations about where the visitor has moved during the visit. Many visitors from outside and outside the company need to be accompanied by people inside and outside the facility when moving around the facility, and / or are limited in where they can enter the organization. Is particularly useful. The aforementioned logs can also detect and report that there were no visitors in the same location as the host of the specified event, indicating a potential violation in the organization's visitor policy.

  In one or more embodiments, notifications can also be associated with the visitor tracking features described above. These can include: 1) the visitor is staying in a location where he / she is not prescribed to stay based on the agenda; 2) the visitor is not authorized In a location in the object; and 3) the visitor is not escorted. In various embodiments, these notifications can be routed to hosts, organization administrators, and / or security personnel.

  In yet another embodiment, the described system 100 may further support a fourth “administrator role”. The administrator will be a secretary or visit coordinator who is responsible for administrative work within the organization. In one or more embodiments, the system 100 provides all notifications going to the host to this administrator on behalf of or with the host, and the secretary or visit coordinator as the administrator for the host. It is possible to carry out all actions. However, an administrator with such an administrator role may be a visitor and a user (usually because the administrator does not actually participate in the event associated with the visit), for example as shown in FIGS. 2a-2d. It does not have to appear in the gathering of the interface screen.

Computing Platform FIG. 5 illustrates an exemplary embodiment of a computerized system 500 that may be used as the mobile client device 101 in connection with the location system 100 shown in FIG. In one or more embodiments, the computerized system 500 is a smart phone, personal digital assistant (PDA), tablet computer, or smart watch, all of which are widely commercially available and well known to those skilled in the art. Etc. may be implemented within the form factor of the mobile computing device.

  The computerized system 500 processes data and other computations and data buses 504 or other interconnection or communication mechanisms for communicating information across and between the various hardware components of the computerized system 500. And a central processing unit (CPU or simply processor) 501 coupled to data bus 504 for performing control tasks. Computerized system 500 also includes memory 512, such as random access memory (RAM) or other dynamic storage device, coupled to data bus 504 for storing various information as well as instructions to be implemented by processor 501. . The memory 512 may also include a permanent storage device, such as a magnetic disk, optical disk, solid state flash memory device, or other non-volatile solid state storage device.

  In one or more embodiments, the memory 512 may also be used to store temporary variables or other intermediate information during execution of instructions by the processor 501. In some cases, computerized system 500 further includes a firmware for processor 501, such as firmware required for operation of computerized system 500, basic input / output control system (BIOS), and various configuration parameters of computerized system 500. It may include a read only memory (ROM or EPROM) 502 or other static storage device coupled to the data bus 504 for storing static information and instructions.

  In one or more embodiments, the computerized system 500 may incorporate a display device 509 that may also be coupled to the data bus 504 to display various information to a user of the computerized system 500. In an alternative embodiment, display device 509 may be coupled to a graphics controller and / or a graphics processor (not shown). Display device 509 can be implemented, for example, as a liquid crystal display (LCD) manufactured using thin film transistor (TFT) technology or organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology, both of which are well known to those skilled in the art. In various embodiments, the display device 509 may be housed in the same overall housing along with the remaining components of the computerized system 500. In alternative embodiments, the display device 509 may be located outside such a housing.

  In one or more embodiments, the computerized system 500 includes a touch screen interface 910 for receiving haptic commands, a camera 511 for acquiring still images and videos of various objects, such as a user's face or room environment. , As well as one or more input devices, such as a keyboard 506, all of which can communicate information including but not limited to images and video and user command selections to the processor 501. It may be coupled to the data bus 504 described above. In an alternative embodiment, the input device may include a system (not shown) for tracking the user's eye movement that may be used to indicate command selection by the user to the computerized system 500.

  In one or more embodiments, the computerized system 500 performs a scan on the beacon and is a location signal receiver configured to provide the scan data described above to the processor 501 via the data bus 504. 503 may be further included.

  In one or more embodiments, the computerized system 500 may further include a communication interface, such as a network interface 505 coupled to the data bus 504. The network interface 505 establishes a connection between the computerized system 500 and the Internet 524 using at least one of the WIFI interface 507 and a cellular network (GSM® or CDMA) adapter 508. Can be configured. Network interface 505 may be configured to provide bi-directional data communication between computerized system 500 and the Internet 524. The WIFI interface 507 may operate according to the 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g and / or 802.11n protocols and the Bluetooth® protocol well known to those skilled in the art. In one exemplary implementation, the WIFI interface 507 and the cellular network (GSM® or CDMA) adapter 508 transmit and receive electrical or electromagnetic signals that carry digital data streams representing various types of information. For example, the networking components described above can be used to establish network data connections between the computerized system 500 and other components of the system 100, such as the location service 102.

  In one or more embodiments, the Internet 524 typically provides data communication through one or more sub-networks to other network resources. Accordingly, the computerized system 500 can access various network resources anywhere on the Internet 524, such as web servers, other content servers, as well as other network data storage resources. In one or more embodiments, the computerized system 500 is configured to send and receive messages, media, and other data, including application program code, over various networks, including the Internet 524, via the network interface 505. Is done. In the Internet example, when computerized system 500 acts as a network client, computerized system 500 may request code or data for an application program running on computerized system 500. Similarly, computerized system 500 may send various data or computer code to other network resources.

  In one or more embodiments, computerized system 500 uses network interface 505 to send a request, such as an HTTP request, over Internet 524 to location service 102 that includes the information described above.

  In one or more embodiments, the functionality described herein is responsive to a processor 501 executing one or more sequences of one or more instructions contained in memory 512. Implemented by the computerized system 500. Such instructions can be read into memory 512 from another computer-readable medium. Execution of the sequence of instructions contained in memory 512 causes processor 501 to perform various process steps described herein. In alternative embodiments, hardwired circuits may be used in place of or in combination with software instructions to implement embodiments of the present invention. Thus, embodiments of the invention are not limited to any specific combination of hardware circuitry and software.

  The term “computer-readable medium” as used herein refers to any medium that participates in providing instructions to processor 501 for execution. A computer-readable medium is only one example of a machine-readable medium that may carry instructions for implementing any of the methods and / or techniques described herein. Such a medium may take many forms, including but not limited to, non-volatile media and volatile media.

  Common forms of non-transitory computer readable media include, for example, floppy disks, flexible disks, hard disks, magnetic tapes, or any other magnetic medium, CD-ROM, any other optical medium, punch card, paper tape, Any other physical media with a pattern of holes, RAM, PROM, EPROM, FLASH-EPROM, flash drive, memory card, any other memory chip or cartridge, or any other media that can be read by a computer Including. Various forms of computer readable media may be involved in carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions to processor 501 for execution. For example, the instructions may initially be carried on a magnetic disk from a remote computer. Alternatively, the remote computer can load the instructions into its dynamic memory and send the instructions over the Internet 524. In particular, computer instructions may be downloaded into the memory 512 of the computerized system 500 from the aforementioned remote computers via the Internet 524 using various network data communication protocols well known in the art.

  In one or more embodiments, the memory 512 of the computerized system 500 may store any of the following software programs, applications, or modules.

  1. An operating system (OS) 513 that may be a mobile operating system for implementing basic system services and managing various hardware components of the computerized system 500. Exemplary embodiments of operating system 513 are well known to those skilled in the art and may include any mobile operating system now known or later developed.

  2. The network communication module 514 uses a network interface 505 that operates in conjunction with, for example, the WIFI adapter 507 or the GSM® / CDMA adapter 508 to vary the computerized system 500 and the Internet 524 such as the location service 102. One or more network protocol stacks may be incorporated that are used to establish networking connections with various network entities.

  3. The mobile application 515 is a software application executed by the processor 501 of the computerized system 500 that causes the computerized system 500 to perform some predetermined function, such as, for example, receiving a beacon signal as described above. A set may be included. In one or more embodiments, the mobile application 515 may include, for example, a client device service 516 as well as a graphical user interface generation application 517 along with a notification application 518.

  4). Data storage 519 can be used, for example, to store beacon scan data 520.

  FIG. 6 illustrates an exemplary embodiment of a computerized system 600 that can be used to deploy various services of the system for automatic recognition and management of corporate visitor scheduling and coordination shown in FIG. Indicates.

  In one or more embodiments, the computerized system 600 can be substantially similar to the data bus 604 of the computerized system 500 shown in FIG. 9 and can perform substantially similar functions. A data bus 604 may be incorporated. In various embodiments, the data bus 604 may use the same or different interconnection and / or communication protocols as the data bus 504. One or more processors (CPU) 601, network adapter 605, EPROM / firmware storage 602, display device 609 and keyboard 606 of computerized system 600, except that the previous components are deployed in a server platform configuration. As with each processor 501, network interface 505, EPROM / firmware storage 502, display device 509 and keyboard 506 of computerized system 500, may be substantially similar. In various implementations, one or more processors 601 may have substantially increased processing power compared to processor 501.

  In addition to the input device 606 (keyboard), the computerized system 600 communicates instruction information and command selections to the processor 601, and controls cursor movement on the display device 609, such as a mouse, trackball, or A cursor control device 610 such as a cursor direction key may be further included. This input device typically allows two degrees of freedom in two axes, a first axis (eg, x) and a second axis (eg, y) that allows the device to specify a position in the plane. Have.

  The LAN / ISDN adapter 607 of the computerized system 600 provides a data communication connection to a corresponding type of telephone line that is interfaced with the Internet 524 using, for example, Internet service provider hardware (not shown). Therefore, it can be implemented using an integrated services digital network (ISDN) card or modem. As another example, the LAN / ISDN adapter 607 may be a local area network interface card (LAN NIC) to provide a compatible LAN and data communication connection to the Internet 524. In order to store various media files, the computerized system 600 may be provided with a document storage 608 for storing various data by the storage controller 603. The camera 611 can be used to acquire images and / or videos of various objects.

  In one or more embodiments, the memory 612 of the computerized system 600 may store any of the following software programs, applications, modules, and / or data.

  1. A server operating system (OS) 613 that may be an operating system for implementing basic system services and managing various hardware components of the computerized system 600. All exemplary embodiments of server operating system 613 are well known to those skilled in the art and may include any operating system now known or later developed.

  2. The network communication module 614 uses, for example, a network adapter 605 operating with the LAN / ISDN adapter 607 to provide networking connections between the computerized system 600 and various network entities of the Internet 524, such as the computerized system 500. One or more network protocol stacks used to establish may be incorporated.

    3. Server application 615 may include, for example, a set of software applications executed by one or more processors 601 of computerized system 600 that cause computerized system 600 to perform some predetermined function or task. In one or more embodiments, the server application 615 may include a location service 102, a visit service 103, a visit agenda database 104, and a notification engine 616.

  4). Data storage 617 can be used, for example, to store context metadata 618, which can be stored in the form of database tables.

  Finally, it should be understood that the processes and techniques described herein are not inherently related to any particular apparatus and may be implemented by any suitable combination of components. Further, various types of general purpose devices may be used in accordance with the teachings described herein. It will be appreciated that it may also be advantageous to construct a dedicated apparatus for performing the method steps described herein. The invention has been described with reference to specific examples that are intended in all respects to be illustrative rather than limiting. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that many different combinations of hardware, software and firmware will be suitable for practicing the present invention. For example, the described software is diverse, including assembler, C / C ++, objective C, perl, shell, PHP, Java, and any programming or scripting language currently known or later developed. Can be implemented in a simple programming or scripting language.

  Moreover, other implementations of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. Various aspects and / or components of the described embodiments may be used alone or in any combination in a system and method for automatic recognition and management of enterprise visitor scheduling and coordination. The specification and examples should be considered exemplary only, with the true scope and spirit of the invention being indicated by the following claims.

101 mobile client device 102 location service 103 visit service 104 visit agenda database 105 context metadata and notification

Claims (29)

A computer-implemented method, wherein the method is implemented in a computerized system comprising a central processing unit, a location signal receiver, and a memory, the computer-implemented method comprising:
a. Receiving at least one location signal using the location signal receiver;
b. Determining a person's location based on the received at least one location signal;
c. Storing information about the person's role associated with the visit;
d. Storing information about the agenda of the visit;
e. Using the determined location of the person, the stored role information, and the stored visit agenda information to manage the visit.   The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the visit agenda information includes information about each event associated with the visit. The stored information about the agenda of the visit includes the location of the event;
The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein managing the visit comprises generating a graphical user interface that includes a location indicator that indicates a location of the person associated with the location of the event.   The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein if the location signal is not received, the location indicator indicates that the person's location cannot be determined.   The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the location indicator is selected from the group comprising “inside a building”, “near the building”, “far from the building”.   The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the location indicator is selected from the group comprising “inside a building”, “near the building”, “far from the building”, and “inside the location of the event”. .   The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the location indicator includes a colored graphic widget, and the color of the colored graphic widget is an indication of the person's location relative to the location of the visit.   The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the location indicator includes a measurement of a distance between the person's location and the visited location.   The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the distance measurement is indicated in distance units.   The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the distance measurement is indicated in units of time indicating when the person will arrive at the location of the visit. The visit agenda information includes the time of the event;
The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein managing the visit includes generating a graphical user interface that includes an indicator that indicates whether the person is late for the event.   The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the indicator includes a measure of the person's delay time for the visit.   The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the visit agenda information includes information about each person participating in each event associated with the visit.   The computer-implemented method of claim 13, wherein the information about each person participating in the visit includes a person's mobile device identifier (ID). The role of the person associated with the visit is selected from the group consisting of visitors, hosts and non-host participants;
The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein each visit is associated with at least one visitor and at least one host.   The computer-implemented method of claim 15, further comprising notifying the host of the arrival of the visitor at a location associated with the visit.   The computer-implemented method of claim 15, further comprising notifying a request for attention from the visitor.   The computer-implemented method of claim 15, further comprising notifying the host of a delay in arrival of the visitor at a location associated with the visit.   The role of the person associated with the visit is an administrator, and the computer-implemented method further includes the arrival of the visitor at a location associated with the visit or the arrival of the visitor at a location associated with the visit. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, comprising: notifying the administrator of a delay of   Information about each event associated with the visit includes a time and location of each event associated with the visit, and the computer-implemented method is further based on the location of the person associated with the location of the event. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, comprising automatically adjusting the time of each event associated with a visit.   21. The computer-implemented method of claim 20, further comprising providing the adjusted time of each event associated with the visit for each person associated with the event.   The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the location signal includes one or more BLE signals from one or more Bluetooth® low energy (BLE) beacons. On the computer,
a. Receiving at least one location signal using a location signal receiver;
b. Determining a person's location based on the received at least one location signal;
c. Storing information about the person's role associated with the visit;
d. Storing information about the agenda of the visit;
e. A program for performing a process comprising managing the visit using the determined location of the person, the stored role information and the stored visit agenda information. A computerized system comprising a central processing unit, a location signal receiver, and a memory,
The memory is
a. Receiving at least one location signal using the location signal receiver;
b. Determining a person's location based on the received at least one location signal;
c. Storing information about the person's role associated with the visit;
d. Storing information about the agenda of the visit;
e. Storing a set of computer readable instructions that cause a computerized system to perform a method comprising managing the visit using the determined location of the person, the stored role information and the stored visit agenda information. Computerized system. Storage means for storing an event relating to a visit, information on a visitor to the event, information relating to an organizer of the event, and information relating to a venue where the event is held, in association with at least
Receiving means for receiving, from the visitor's mobile terminal, identification information for identifying the visitor or the mobile terminal, and information relating to the location of the mobile terminal;
Using the identification information, from the event stored in the storage means, an acquisition means for acquiring an event related to the user of the mobile terminal;
Based on the information on the location received by the receiving means, the positional relationship information indicating the positional relationship between the location of the visitor and the venue where the event acquired by the acquiring means is held, A transmission means for transmitting to the organizer;
Including system. The mobile terminal further receives information on the strength of the signal from the signal generator;
The system according to claim 25, wherein the information on the position is information on the strength received by the mobile terminal and is used for estimating the position of the mobile terminal. A plurality of visitors are associated with the event,
27. The system according to claim 25, wherein the transmission means transmits the positional relationship information for each visitor to the organizer. Receiving means for receiving a signal from the signal generator;
Transmitting means for transmitting user identification information for identifying a user or user terminal, information for identifying a transmission source of the signal received by the receiving means, and the strength of the signal received by the receiving means, to the server device; ,
The server apparatus uses the user identification information transmitted by the transmission means, the information for identifying the transmission source, and the strength as information related to the user identification information by the server device. Acquisition means for generating information and acquiring information about the generated event;
Display means for displaying information about the event acquired by the acquisition means;
Including mobile devices. Deriving means for deriving the position of the user terminal from the intensity of the signal received by the receiving means;
The mobile terminal according to claim 28, wherein the transmitting unit transmits the position of the user terminal derived by the deriving unit to a server device instead of the strength of the signal received by the receiving unit.